United States v. Serrano-Mercado, No. 13-1730 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in knowing possession of a firearm. The district court imposed a sentence of 100 months’ imprisonment. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the district court (1) did not commit prejudicial error in counting more than one of Defendant’s prior convictions for Puerto Rico criminal offenses as a conviction for a “crime of violence” under the Sentencing Guidelines; and (2) did not err in applying an enhancement under the Guidelines due to the existence of an obliterated serial number on the frame of the firearm Defendant was convicted of possessing, even when the serial number on the slide was unaltered.
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